Definition of Drill

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Definition of Drill

Drill

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.

To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.

To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

To trickle.

To sow in drills.

A small trickling stream; a rill.

An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

A row of seed sown in a furrow.

A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

Same as Drilling.

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Drill Quotations

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
R. Lee Ermey

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
R. Lee Ermey

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
R. Lee Ermey

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
David Hackworth

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.
Jim Evans

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
Jay Inslee

Drill Translations

drill in Danish is bore
drill in Dutch is boren
drill in Finnish is porata
drill in German is ausbilden, Furche, abrichten, bohren, Bohrer
drill in Italian is forare
drill in Norwegian is bor, drill, eksersis
drill in Portuguese is brocas
drill in Spanish is taladro, barrenar
drill in Swedish is exercera, drill, drilla, borra

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